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Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 28, 2011
The United States Supreme Court decided, 5-4, against Arizona’s “clean elections” law. In two challenges to the law, Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett and McComish v. Bennett, the Court ruled for freedom and against a bizarrely unfair form of “fairness.” The idea behind Arizona’s law was…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 28, 2011
Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards succinctly explains that not only does Rep. Boehner’s budget plan fail to cut spending $1 trillion over the next ten years — as advertised — but it “doesn’t actually cut spending at all.” Zilch. Spending goes up. “Why doesn’t the House leadership propose real cuts?” asks…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: January 27, 2016
"Local Moralist Doing His Part to End Income Inequality" Click below for high resolution version of this image: Mugger photo by Flikr user cometstarmoon
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 10, 2017
An outpouring of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to a pending recommendation by the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission caused the commission to table that proposed recommendation concerning citizen-initiated ballot measures — in what may be the last meeting of the commission. The recommendation would have created numerous double standards between constitutional amendments…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 9, 2012
Where do billionaires come from? Douglas French, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, reminds us where the term “millionaire” came from. It was coined in 1720 during John Law’s “Mississippi Bubble” to describe those making vast fortunes in Law’s Mississippi Company stock that rose from 150 livres to 10,000…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: October 18, 2001
It's hard to miss: The dash for the telephones; the rush to fill a sudden vacuum; the mad scramble. Amazing, yet predictable. Electoral competition. Democracy. Not necessarily every time there's an election, but at least every time there's an open seat. Every time an entrenched incumbent finally decides to step…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 12, 2014
One of the reasons many of us find pleasure in sports is that it provides respite from life-and-death issues like politics. But there is no respite: the current Winter Olympics now going on in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, has been ultra-political from the get-go. Russia’s chest-baring potentate, Vlad “The Impulsive”…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 11, 2012
Communist dictator Mao Tse Tung was fond of quoting Laozi, who said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Dennis Collins is neither a Taoist philosopher nor a dictator. The physician’s assistant, husband and father from Jacksonville, Illinois, is fine with that. “I’m just a private…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 12, 2010
When grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan didn’t have to go out on a limb to dismiss the rights affirmed in the Declaration of Independence. Most liberals and conservatives share the view that a judge’s job is to interpret the law, not defend “natural rights.”…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 15, 2009
Gustavo Rendon was arrested in broad daylight — right in front of his two boys. One St. Louis policeman threatened that his boys would be sent into foster care. Rendon’s crime? He passed out fliers in his neighborhood. He spoke out on public policy — in this case, opposing an…